Merce Rocafort

Department

Plant Responses to Stress

Job Title

Agen-T postdoctoral fellow

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Brief Introduction of the Department

Our main goals are todecipher the genetic determinants of bacterial plant diseases and tocharacterize the main executioners of the hypersensitive response cell death.We combine genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology in an integratedapproach to study both plants and their pathogens.The Bacterial Plant Diseases and Cell Death team is located in the Centre forResearch in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) in Bellaterra, Barcelona. The CRAG isa consortium between the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the CatalanInstitute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (IRTA), theUniversity of Barcelona (UB) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).

For more info: http://www.ub.edu/bactplantdiseases/

Department Staff Number

More than 10 people

Internship Job Description

Bacterial wilt caused by the wide-host range pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum is a devastating disease affecting over 200 plant species from disparate families including potato, tomato, peanut, eucalyptus, clove, etc. We study the expression and the functions of R. solanacearum virulence genes inside its plant hosts. The work includes generation of straind mutant or over expressing candidate genes and evaluating their impact on bacterial virulence and survival.